Proxmox works as well as it does because most of its defaults are already sane. You do not need to twist it into shape before ...

Members of the Windows 1.0 team at their 40-year reunion this week. L-R, kneeling/sitting: Joe Barello, Ed Mills, Tandy Trower, Mark Cliggett, Steve Ballmer (holding a Windows 1.0 screenshot) and Don ...

StartIsBack is a lightweight utility that restores the classic Windows Start Menu to modern Windows versions. Enjoy a familiar, fast. StartIsBack is a powerful and lightweight utility designed to ...

Two Windows vulnerabilities—one a zero-day that has been known to attackers since 2017 and the other a critical flaw that Microsoft initially tried and failed to patch recently—are under active ...

Just like your home address, a computer requires an IP address to allow the data to be sent between different devices on a network. But, if this IP configuration is invalid, the internet fails to send ...

TL;DR: Windows 11 build 26200.5742 continues the gradual migration of legacy Control Panel features to the Settings app. In this preview release, Microsoft has shifted across some time and ...

The Phone Link panel shows calls, messages, and recent files at a glance It appears as a dedicated panel on the right side of the Start Menu Users can also drag and drop files directly between phone ...

Update: The day after we called for further action, Microsoft announced individuals would be able to extend support for Windows 10 for 1 year for $30. We’re excited that—for the first time—Microsoft ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Rumors of the death of the Control Panel have been greatly exaggerated. Rumors of the death of the Control Panel ...

Last week, Microsoft mentioned in a support document that it was formally deprecating Windows’ 39-year-old Control Panel applets. But following widespread reporting of the change, Microsoft has either ...

In a move that marks the end of an era, Microsoft has officially confirmed that the iconic Windows Control Panel is “in the process of being deprecated in favor of the Settings app.” This decision ...

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